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A review by ljrinaldi
Mary Seacole: Bound for the Battlefield by Susan Goldman Rubin
4.0
I love reading about famous women that I have never heard of. And this is one such instance.
Mary Seacole, also known as Mother Seacole, was the Jamaican Florence Nightingale, but unlike Ms. Nightingale, who turned down her services because she wasn't the proper class or color, Seacole didn't care who she treated, and was willing to work with anyone, and did, as well.
The white people looked down on her because she used "folk" medicine, but it worked.
She volunteered to help curing the Crimean War the same way that Florance did, but we don't learn about her when we study that history, because she wasn't trained the same way.
Very good middle grade chapter book, on an amazing woman. I love how the prejudice is pointed out as well, with Ms. Nightingale's letter to a friend of how she rejected Seacole's help.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
Mary Seacole, also known as Mother Seacole, was the Jamaican Florence Nightingale, but unlike Ms. Nightingale, who turned down her services because she wasn't the proper class or color, Seacole didn't care who she treated, and was willing to work with anyone, and did, as well.
The white people looked down on her because she used "folk" medicine, but it worked.
She volunteered to help curing the Crimean War the same way that Florance did, but we don't learn about her when we study that history, because she wasn't trained the same way.
Very good middle grade chapter book, on an amazing woman. I love how the prejudice is pointed out as well, with Ms. Nightingale's letter to a friend of how she rejected Seacole's help.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.